Williamston Resident Honored with Top Agriculture Award
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Michigan Department of Agriculture Director Don Koivisto today announced Williamston resident Steve McGuire was recently put in place for the 2007 Michigan Crop Improvement Association Honorary Membership Award. The prestigious award was McGuire to maintain its services and a commitment to Michigan’s Certified Seed programme. “Steve’s expertise, innovation, management and commitment have made him one of the leading companies in the fields of agriculture heads of state,” said Koivisto. “We are very proud and honored that as part of our MDA McGuire has worked 21 years of monitoring the implementation of analysts certified seed, purity, germination, and other related tests, in the Michigan Law Seed. He was an active member of the Association of Official Seed Analysts, on numerous committees, the Board of Directors and as Vice-President. He also worked closely with the staff and members of MCIA to ensure that Michigan Certified Seed has been correctly identified and certification standards. Recently, McGuire played a role in the drafting of a convention for the use of a greenhouse MCIA MDA for research In 2003, McGuire, the director of operations at the laboratory division of MDA. Heo paid microbiological and chemical analysis of food, beverages, animal specimens, economic poisons, feed, fertilizer, fuel, seeds and other agricultural products. Before his visit to MDA, McGuire, an industry analyst seed of the Ohio Department of Agriculture. He began his career as the MDA to Seed section supervisor and has served as Michigan State Seed Analyst’s since 1982. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in horticulture at Ohio State University. McGuire and his wife, Angela, live in Williamston, and have three daughters and three grandchildren. |